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the flute section keeps passing notes
(_ˇ෴ˇ)_⟋ 🎵🎶
(づ🪈◕‿◕ )づ日 ٩(◕‿◕)۶🪈
The band director is tired of the flutes passing notes in class, but he can't tell what the notes say. Here is one of the messages.
2 10 - 1 2 3 10 - 1 2 10 - 1 ...
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Hidden composer
Today I wanted to make a "logo" for a composer. I liked logos with deeper meaning so I had gone ahead and tried this design:
What composer was I trying to make a logo for?
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Poem coding scientific constants
The following Vogon poem contains various mathematical, scientific and cosmological numbers. There are ten. Can you find them? Credit for partial solutions.
A BTAUJV BTA ALEJM AV EUMJM FAV EATR O
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Togetherness - Enigmatic Puzzle
Clues:
43516 27692 9890 49450 25714 1___ 45494 29670 9890 35604
1___
Instructions: Fill-in the Blank
_ _ _ _ a _ _ _ _
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Ah, c'est Ray!
For many years, I have been writing to a pen-pal in France. In his latest letter, he said that he had something to give me so we should meet in person. I knew that Laurent dabbled in some composing ...
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Some sheet music to decode
Find the word that was encoded in this sheet music:
(No instrument is required)
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A piece of weird music!
As a new recruit of your favourite intelligence service, you are out enjoying a rare bit of time off at the theatres. You are laughing with the rest of the crowd when you feel a tap on your shoulder ...
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A Musical Mystery: Part 1
I need your help.
I'm a physics grad student, but I've always really loved music. So for the past few months, I've been interning with this Italian piano maker - I don't want to say his name here. He'...
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A, seemingly binary, bizzare array
Your friend in band class has been writing on a piece of paper, then hands it to you. On the paper reads:
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Who lives in 314?
You've been invited to room 314, but who lives in 314?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
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Hidden message in musical notes
Can you find it? The message might be a self-fulfilling prophecy
Here's a hint:
Original hint:
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Alternative lyrics
I've been listening to some Alternative music but the lyrics on my album booklet seem to have some printing errors. Can you help figure out this verse?
+2203 166 127 +2282 29.9, -90
(79 75) +...
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Find an iconic movie title with these 8 numbers...!
Here is a code with symbols as hints (Note: The footnote on the second page has nothing to do with the puzzle, it's just there for copyright purposes):
I am psyched to find out if or how somebody ...
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What song is this?
The other day, me and my pal Davin were watching this super popular movie and I loved one of the songs I heard in it, and I play piano so I begged him to send me the sheet music for it because I didn'...
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The Shifted Music Library
This is a spin-off and heavily inspired by Levieux's puzzle that I enjoyed helping answer/solve. And I've never used ciphers or things like this before so I wanted to learn some new puzzles :)
I have ...
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This song sounds awful
Your friend Alice has made a recording of her favourite song for you. She sent the audio to you in an email, but when you opened the link, it sounded terrible! You ask her what's wrong with the file, ...
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What is my favorite song?
I think this song is one of the greatest of all time, when it comes to lyrics. It starts like this:
ELDR
ESYL
NSMOD
FINIE
OEOA
WTYU
KIHOA
GI
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The name of MY woodcarver's toy
A friend of mine who I met online, who lives is Spain was talking to me on messenger and the topic got onto music.
He went ahead and sent this message.
R'n nfxs orpv Krmlxxsrl rh gl Tvkkvggl, mlg ...
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My odd music teacher
I have a problem, and I need your help! My music teacher is, well, a bit odd. Instead of telling me what topic we're going to be quizzed on, he's given me this puzzle to solve instead. He handed me ...
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The inheritance of Mr. Jones
When I went to get the mail this morning, I noticed an official-looking letter in my mailbox. It said 'Quick 'n Quiet Notary Service' on the back, and it was addressed to me. Curious about the content ...
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Help me with our discovery!
Recently, the grandfather of one of my friends died, and I helped him clean up the storage room he used. We found a lot of cool stuff there (well, he was alive during the occupation time in the second ...
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What's Jonas trying to hint to me?
(The length of the post is due to the size of the hints. Sorry. If you're just skimming through, the quoteblocks and codeblocks are the hints.)
My buddy Jonas has been hinting me about something for ...
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Homage To Robert Johnson
This is a revival attempt of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge.
(Well, truthfully, I didn't know about the challenge but the puzzle I thought of this morning coincidentally is music-related so I am ...
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Can You Note the Notes?
This is what happened to Jack and Dave.
If you were Jack and Dave, what would you do?
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A Musical Message
So, a few days ago I told James the answer to his riddle. He seemed at the same time proud of me and a bit disappointed... I guess he thought it would take longer to solve! "It seems the witch's hex ...
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Preparing for the end of term performance
It's the first full week of term at Farthingbottom School and Portia, Felix, Primula and Randolph have arrived in the music room for their lesson. Professor N. Igma is nowhere to be seen, but he has ...
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Music from the movies ♬ ♬
The following six audio samples represent, perhaps, the best-known classical music compositions as they have been used in more than 150 mainstream movies.
This question asks you to identify the six ...
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